President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called to wish him a happy birthday — and that while the conversation regarding Russia’s war with Ukraine had been limited, there would be more to come on that front sometime “next week.” Trump also reported that the two had discussed the ongoing hostilities between Iran and Israel, saying that when Putin had expressed his wish to see that war end, he had called on the Russian to end his own war as well. pic.twitter.com/dsKZ9p6oWL — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 14, 2025 “President Putin called this morning to very nicely wish me a Happy Birthday, but to more importantly talk about Iran, a country he knows very well,” Trump began. “We talked at length. Much less time was spent talking about Russia/Ukraine but that will be for next week.” “He is doing the planned prisoner swaps,” Trump continued. “Large numbers of prisoners are being exchanged, immediately, from both sides.” “The call lasted approximately one hour,” the president added, saying that Putin had expressed his wish to see the war between Iran and Israel ended — to which Trump said he agreed, but that he’d also like to see the war between Russia and Ukraine brought to an end. Gift Dad an All Access Membership. Use code DAD40 at checkout to save 40%! “He feels, as do I, that this war in Israel-Iran should end, to which I explain that his war should also end,” Trump concluded. Trump has repeatedly voiced his support for Israel – and noted in the hours after the first strikes that he had warned Iran on several occasions to make a deal while there was still a deal to be had. pic.twitter.com/KSg8MblrPr — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 13, 2025 “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60-day ultimatum to ‘make a deal,'” Trump posted on Friday. “They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!”

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So the House Republicans voted to end taxpayer funding for Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has repeatedly claimed, in the face of avalanches of evidence, that she has never witnessed any bias at NPR. That’s beyond ridiculous. You can find it, day after day, hour on the hour. This week’s Los Angeles rioting provided plenty of exhibits. On the June 11 “Morning Edition,” Los Angeles-based co-host A Martinez told listeners, “We want to get a sense of how the community around Los Angeles is feeling about the decision to mobilize the military against civilians.” Notice how there’s no mention here of responding to violence or unrest by “civilians.” The NPR host turned to Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, and these two Latino journalists engaged in a riotous defense of the protests against immigration enforcement. Arellano began by claiming, “People feel like Trump doesn’t see them as Americans, that he sees us as prisoners, basically.” Martinez turned to the defense of foreign flag-wavers: “Protesters are carrying flags from Mexico, from El Salvador, also carrying American flags, too. But what is the significance of the flags not being stars and stripes?” Arellano ripped Team Trump: “These people are not speaking to young folks who will say, well, you don’t consider me an American. I’m going to wrap myself in something that at least I have comfort in knowing I’m proud of, that this is the culture of my parents. And by the way, I am still American, but you wouldn’t know, because you don’t want to talk to me because you see me as subhuman.” The cartooning here is gaudy and demented. Martinez said the criticism was odd because “people on the East Coast wave Italian flags or wave flags from France or Greece or wherever they’re from in Europe.” This is silly because if Greek Americans wave a flag on Greek Independence Day while they pass around the dolmas, that’s nothing like waving a flag on the hood of a smoldering car at a protest against immigration enforcement. Arellano jumped in and said these Trump guys, “you’re never going to hear them criticize anyone who waves a Confederate flag.” That’s fascinating. But NPR incessantly discussed Confederate flags at the violent protest at the Capitol on Jan. 6. So maybe they should consider the parallels they’re trying to make. Martinez continued with the flag banter: “Does the argument that not waving an American flag at these protests makes the protest inherently un-American? Does that argument hold any water?” Naturally, Arellano said “no.” He blamed all this on the Proposition 187 referendum in 1994—which aimed to deny taxpayer dollars to illegal aliens. Arellano said that was the end of any Republican foothold in California. OK. Maybe that would explain Democrat enthusiasm for wave after wave of “undocumented” people. The only feint toward a non-liberal point was asking about the violence. Arellano claimed: “At the protests that I’ve been to with my colleagues, 99.99% of the people protesting are perfectly safe. But also, to just accuse Antifa or anarchists are doing it—that’s not the case at all.” It’s just a few “teenagers hurling rocks and water bottles at the police.” If someone threw a rock at an NPR reporter or lit an NPR studio on fire, they might be less sanguine about what percentage of a city is non-violent. NPR and PBS should never be seen as America’s oasis of civility. They’re not. They fiercely hate Republicans, and they’ll defend almost anyone against them. In the face of defunding, they couldn’t stop the bashing and trashing. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Endangered NPR Never Stops Ripping Conservatives appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Earlier this week, ABC News canned senior national correspondent Terry Moran for posting on social media that White House domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller is “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” a “world-class hater,” and “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” This did not sit well with Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, who claimed on Wednesday’s The Weekly Show podcast that ABC is “a fucking joke” for firing Moran. Towards the end of the show, Stewart turned to audience-submitted questions as producer Brittany Mehmedovic asked him, “Do you think ABC should’ve fired Terry Moran over his Stephen Miller tweet?” An angry Stewart replied, “Of course not, so stupid. No, for God’s sakes. Should they have fired him? Shouldn’t have paid the $50 million, they shouldn’t have fired him. They’re literally—every day on Fox News, they’re taking stuff out of context, or their people are saying utterly vicious things about Democratic politicians and all kinds of other things. The entire thing is because ABC clings to this façade that they somehow exist in a bubble outside of all of this. It’s a joke. They’re a fucking joke, and—”     Moran was somebody that ABC insisted (despite all evidence to the contrary) was a straight newsman, so comparing him to certain nameless opinion people at Fox is not a good analogy. Jimmy Kimmel and The View say vicious things about conservatives and Republicans every day, and ABC does nothing about it because those shows have long since stopped pretending to be neutral messengers of the news. As for The Weekly Show, the F-bombs were just starting to fly. Associate Producer Gillian Spear chimed in to add, “And Stephen Miller, by the way, would wear that like a badge of honor. He’s a sick fuck. He’s got it printed out, probably, and hung in his office.” Stewart agreed and, with a reference to Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, declared, “Sick fuck is exactly right, and I think, like exactly like you say, as I say, when he cums, he shouts ‘Deport,’ and I stand by that.” Lead producer Lauren Walker then wondered, “You know, I was thinking, who is left at ABC that is acceptable to Trump to interview him because Stephanopoulos had to say sorry, now Terry Moran’s out, Muir and Davis held him accountable at a debate. Like, who will be left?” Stewart concluded the Moran portion of the show by adding, “There’s no—and the problem with it all is there’s no level of fealty that is enough. You’ve seen him attack Fox News. That is literally, like, a 24-hour Trump ball polishing machine, and so the idea that somehow there is a level of fealty that these journalists. What does he always say whenever he gets asked questions? ‘That’s a terrible question, why don’t you ever just thank me.’ Oh, in other words, like, just another one of your fucking cabinet members."  Putting Trump and Miller aside, what do you call someone who says a one-term senator is the first person since George Washington to step down into the presidency? Stewart may not like how Fox covers Trump, but that has nothing to do with Moran or ABC. Here is a transcript for the June 12 show: Comedy Central The Weekly Show 6/12/2025 1 Hour, 9 Minutes, 5 Seconds BRITTANY MEHMEDOVIC: Jon— JON STEWART: Yes. MEHMEDOVIC: —Do you think ABC should’ve fired Terry Moran over his Stephen Miller tweet? STEWART: Of course not, so stupid. No, for God’s sakes. Should they have fired him? Shouldn’t have paid the $50 million, they shouldn’t have fired him. They’re literally—every day on Fox News, they’re taking stuff out of context, or their people are saying utterly vicious things about Democratic politicians and all kinds of other things. The entire thing is because ABC clings to this façade that they somehow exist in a bubble outside of all of this. It’s a joke. They’re a fucking joke, and— GILLIAN SPEAR: And Stephen Miller, by the way, would wear that like a badge of honor. He’s a sick fuck. He’s got it printed out, probably, and hung in his office STEWART: Sick fuck is exactly right, and I think, like exactly like you say, as I say, he cums, he shouts “Deport,” and I stand by that. LAUREN WALKER: You know, I was thinking, who is left at ABC that is acceptable to Trump to interview him because Stephanopoulos had to say sorry, now Terry Moran’s out, Muir and Davis held him accountable at a debate. Like, who will be left? STEWART: There’s no—and the problem with it all is there’s no level of fealty that is enough. You’ve seen him attack Fox News. That is literally, like, a 24-hour Trump ball polishing machine, and so the idea that somehow there is a level of fealty that these journalists. What does he always say whenever he gets asked questions? “That’s a terrible question, why don’t you ever just thank me.” Oh, in other words, like, just another one of your fucking cabinet members.  

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